“The facility and the site do not meet the requirements that we need,” said Intel spokesman Chuck Mulloy. The factory, originally built by defunct computer company Digital Equipment Corp., was acquired by Intel in 1998. It uses chipmaking technology that’s more than a decade old, and four generations behind the equipment used in Intel’s most advanced factories. As a result, the Hudson plant has been used to make a variety of low-end chips found in many electronic devices. The factory does not produce more sophisticated microprocessors, like the Core, Xeon and Atom chips, which are Intel’s best-known and most lucrative products.

New Intel CEO Brian Krzanich managed the Hudson factory from 1997 to 2001, boom times for the company and the rest of the tech industry, and oversaw its integration after Intel bought it from DEC.

Intel said it will continue to employ 850 researchers at the Hudson site. Mulloy told the paper that Intel will try to sell the factory, potentially preserving jobs at the site. In Oregon, trailing-edge factories have been successful finding new owners; the old LSI fab in Gresham, for example, is now ON Semiconductor’s flagship factory.

Though based in California, Intel’s largest site is in Washington County, where the company employs more than 17,000.